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In posts on gun message boards and gaming chat rooms, a user who authorities believe was Newtown gunman Adam Lanza showed a technical prowess about weapons and computers, a "fetish" for a certain bullet and a near-fixation with correcting Wikipedia articles about mass killers. He would have been 17 years old at the time of the posts, which are being examined by investigative agencies. The posts linked to Lanza reflect his interests and thoughts, publicly revealed for the first time in the killer's own words. Although Lanza did not use his name, investigators linked the poster's user name to Lanza, according to sources familiar with the probe of the Dec. 14 shooting at...

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In posts on gun message boards and gaming chat rooms, a user who authorities believe was Newtown gunman Adam Lanza showed a technical prowess about weapons and computers, a "fetish" for a certain bullet and a near-fixation with correcting...

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America is facing up to one of its greatest failures: our grossly unfair criminal justice system.
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Attorney General...

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Make no mistake: The bombs that went off at the end of the Boston Marathon were acts of terror.
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